As yee may or may not have seen, I am in the process of selling all my gear to fund new stuff, for no other reason that I fancied a change!
I've got an idea for most sections but I'm struggling with my drive hunt.
I need a low gain and heavier gain which stack well together. I play anything from blues, classic rock and modern stuffs (biffy/Jimmy Eat World/Killers etc...) and the variety is making it hard.
My main guitar is a Parker P44 (although a Fender Strat and LP feature a lot). They are played through a Fender Deville 2x12.
So far I'm thinking a Bogner Red for my heavier needs, but I'm stuck on light drives, so any thoughts on:
XTS Imperial Overdrive
Analogman POT
Something by Providence/Free the Tone
Timmy
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I find this to give me pretty much anything.
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EHX Soul Food > Boss DS-1 > Boss SD-1.
Simple, cheap, effective.
The more drive pedals i own, buy,use the more i keep returning to my SD1 and DS-1. I could have saved thousands over the years by just listening to my ears rather than lusting after plenty of different overdrives
MXR Badass Custom OD is another nice overdrive I really like.
Admittedly, I have one for sale but you might want to have a look at the Tech21 Double Drive.
It basically gives you a Vox style drive or a Fender/ Marshall style with the ability to run one into the other giving a huge range from light break up to full on drive. It's very dynamic too, reacting well to guitar volume and picking strength. The two drives can be cascaded into each other for "stacking". I play in a covers band and used this for most of my basic drive sounds as it is so flexible. Here's what Tech21 say about it:
"DRIVE A controls the amount of Class A power amp output stage distortion (like Vox AC30®-style amp), rich in even harmonics. The amount of harmonics is dynamically controlled by the input level and their ratio by how hard you pick. DRIVE A/B controls the amount of Class A/B power amp output stage distortion (like Fender®/Marshall®-style amps), rich in odd harmonics."
I'm selling the now discontinued original, not the x3 which has presets. PM me if you're interested.
It has a wide range of gain so it does higher gain as well but I really like it for lower gain stuff. For the lower gain stuff it can help running it at 12 or 18V.
You haven't had one? Must be the only one.............
You could do a *lot* worse than the Hardwire Tube overdrive and Tube Distortion for a pair of drive pedals.
For the low-mid gains MXR do some nice drives. The Distortion3 and/or Custom Badass distortions are excellent low-mid gain pedals.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Crowther Hotcake - The gigRig demo of the Radiohead board made this sound great, and I was tempted for a while